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Creativity needs to be DRM-free

While I much prefer to play guitar and bass in my music, I do love me some soft synths. They afford you a ton of options on the cheap. Sure, they aren't as "warm" or whatever, but there's ways to [...]

Stop judging your mix by your phone's speakers

While I know my mixes aren't perfect, I do take pride in trying to make things sound good. And by good I mean, good enough for my ears. I'll pine for hours, tweaking small things, notching the EQ, and all [...]

Streaming services playing art police

I've been doing a ton of genre-dipping with my current musical project, sorority hamster, as I try to figure out my voice. In doing so, I've ventured deep into the hyper niche of grindcore / cybergrind. By definition, grindcore songs [...]

How to rate-limit requests with NGINX

This so-called "AI Era" is a fucking mess. The web is full of low-quality slop articles and made up imagery. Self-hosting is more of an exercise in DDoS mitigation than anything else. What a time to be alive. All you [...]

Move fast and make noise

Ever do something sorta as a joke and then the lines start to blur a bit? That's where I'm at right now. After watching the DEVO documentary a while back, I was really fired up to make some new music [...]

Creating links in Slack

Depending on if you have the "Format messages with markup" option selected, you may or may not have a button to create links available to you. Here's some notes on both scenarios. "Format messages with markup" option disabled If you [...]

Fallacies of AI-driven product research

The customer is always right. But what if the customer was lied to? If a sales person over promises, and the product under delivers, the customer won't be happy. This often leads to a cancellation and refund request. But what [...]

Notes on Diablo IV's Eternal Realm after 10 Seasons

I've been playing Diablo IV since launch, having partaken in every season since the first. That was until season 9, when I opted to continue my lovely Torment 4 Necromantress in the Eternal Realm rather than chase this season's "collect [...]

AI Coding Tools I Use to Ship Faster - Q4 2025

Back in June I wrote about the AI coding tools that I was using to be productive. Fast forward through Q3, a lot has changed in the market. Newer tools and shinier LLMs, sometimes both in the same week. I'm [...]

Halloween Movies Watch List 2025

With baseball season nearly over (for our beloved Angels at least), spooky season is nearly upon us. Loving seasonal holiday content, we typically will binge episodes of our favorite TV shows, and will watch some scary movies during October and [...]